Status run idea to take advantage of the Double Status Credits promotion

[Danger]

Hey guys,

I've got the Dbl SC offer too.

:?: CAN ANYONE HELP WITH THIS PLEASE????????

I'd like to do the NAN status run BUT I'm living/starting in MEL. Do I need to repos to BNE first for the ~$1300 fare?

(or am i limited to MEL-SYD-NAN-SYD-MEL?)

THanks!!

More than likely, yes. Beginning and ending in BNE will get you a better fare.

 

[RSD]

I'm not sure what's happening, but the QF website isn't listing J class to Nadi? There's not even a J class column that says "no seats"?

 

[nonpop]

I'm not sure what's happening, but the QF website isn't listing J class to Nadi? There's not even a J class column that says "no seats"?

I can see it ok (random July date selected) if this is what you mean plus I get return on the following Monday fine as well ...

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[serfty]

I'm not sure what's happening, but the QF website isn't listing J class to Nadi? There's not even a J class column that says "no seats"?

I am not seeing that; I get to select from Economy[/PE]/Business[/First] before clicking "[Go]"

 

[markis10]

The J fares had dropped off for a short time, they are back now!

 

[RSD]

They dropped off at just the wrong time for me! :-(

I'm heading to Townsville tomorrow morning instead ready to do some SC runs next week - thought I was going to have a nice quiet few days there - until I discovered that the V8's were on! Oh well. Would have much preferred Fiji though!

 

[RSD]

BTW what happens if you cancel a JASA? Do you lose the points and taxes paid or do you get the points credited and taxes as a QF credit for another booking? I'm still thinking of changing plans and going to Fiji tomorrow instead - wanted peace and quiet not V8 supercars!

 

[markis10]

BTW what happens if you cancel a JASA? Do you lose the points and taxes paid or do you get the points credited and taxes as a QF credit for another booking? I'm still thinking of changing plans and going to Fiji tomorrow instead - wanted peace and quiet not V8 supercars!

You get back the points and cash, just takes a long time at present, up to 4 weeks for both!

 

[doczim]

hello,
looks like i will do a TSV ADL run. just a question on return flight back to BNE which leaves 40mins after arriving back in TSV.

can anyone tell me if these are operated by the same plane and therefore I dont need to be concerned about the minimal time between the two flights? Also how do you find that out? inside knowledge or is there a public resource ?

thanks

11:50

Brisbane

13:50

Townsville

Qantas flight QF972

Thu 28 Jul 11

14:30

Townsville

16:15

Brisbane

Qantas flight QF973

 

[markis10]

QF generally operate the same plane back to BNE that did the outbound leg, in fact BNE is the only destination served by QF mainline Jets ex TSV.

 

[doczim]

QF generally operate the same plane back to BNE that did the outbound leg, in fact BNE is the only destination served by QF mainline Jets ex TSV.

thanks markis10

 

[docjames]

Would it not be on one pnr anyway?

 

[markis10]

Would it not be on one pnr anyway?

Nope, illegal connection.

 

[RSD]

I'm still waiting for QF to credit the double SC's for flights from as far back as July 9th - looks like I will be waiting the full six weeks at this rate! Does anyone know if they go back and recalculate your status bonus on flights that would be in a higher QFF status if the double SC's had been awarded on the date that the flights were taken?

 

[doczim]

Nothing like leaving it to the (near) last minute. Due to my poor planning, not to mention decision making, I couldn't get tsv - adl with position flight for reasonable amount of points and or $ cost. So I ended up with what I think is a rather similar outcome. Heres what I booked :

Wed : bne - syd - hba
Thurs : hba - mel - adl - bne - tsv - bne

this should net me 360 SC and about 10k QFF points for about 96k and $400ish

While the TSV BNE ADL option certainly is great value for SC, I just couldn't make it work with with positioning flights as well so I am relatively happy with this option.

Next time I am in ADL for work I will def take advantage of that albiet not under the double SC anymore.

Hope I make all my connections!

 

[timmy-t]

- I'm finally doing the Status run.

mel-bne rtn this weekend (dbl SC points)... (BNE -MEL will actually be the first leg of the trip to NAN)

mel-syd-nan rtn on Thursday August 4th
(with mel-bne postponed until December to coincide with the AUS v NZ test match)

As I'm only SG, I was wondering if there are any WPs out there that would invite me into F lounge in SYD next Thursday??

Let me know... pretty please....

 

[Myrna]

Q on bookings for NAN flights

From reading this thread, I understand that the BNE-MEL-SYD-NAN leg should be booked under multi-city in QF Australian website (J class now showing $765, should earn 180SC). I did a test booking for this leg and it worked OK. And, that the NAN-SYD-MEL-BNE leg should be booked in the QF Fiji website for about FJD970. However, I could not replicate the booking for this leg on the Fiji website because there is no multi-city available. If I put in NAN-BNE then I got the direct flight or via SYD, but not via SYD and MEL. Could someone please point me in the right direction? Many thanks.

 

[Matt P]

grave dig

I'm up for recalculation and i'm 70sc's short of silver requalification. I've left this as long as possible to see if i was let go another year etc.. but nothing. Next year is going to involve an insane amount of flying (adl-syd-adl once a fortnight), so i'd rather start off on silver for advance seat selection etc.. and hopefully get to gold under my own steam (well, i will haha).

Thinking of grabbing syd-mel-syd for 80sc's (36k points + $120 or so).

Would this be an effective use of points/cash or can someone else suggest something?

Cheers
MP

 

[gizzard]

Matt
I'm no expert on these things but you could consider going to somewhere that gives you 15 points in Y class and then the return in J for 60 more. ADL and HBA would fit. I guess it depends where you want to spend the time.

 

[sydflyer]

interesting thread. some good runs in there - esp. the NAN ones.